More mainland tourists are expected to spend money on overseas travel this year.
More mainland tourists are expected to spend money on overseas travel this year, according to a report released to the national tourism authority in 2011.
Two Chinese ride on a sleigh in Lapland in northern
Finland
The Annual Report of China Outbound Tourism Development 2011, released by the China Tourism Academy, estimates that mainland tourists will make 65 million trips to foreign countries as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan this year, up from 57.39 million in 2010.
They are expected to spend US$55 billion overseas, up from US$48 billion a year earlier, the report says.
The academy surveyed more than 2,000 tourists in six big cities last year, and found 26.85 percent of the respondents say they spend more money on shopping than on food, hotel rooms or other expenses.
The latest official figures show that 16 million mainland tourists visited overseas destinations in the first quarter of this year, up 16 percent from the same period last year
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